Word Count

Word Count can create a word list or an n-gram list. By default, Word List includes Word Frequency, number of files the word appear, and proportion of frequency to the total number of words. n-gram List only returns frequency. You can set the scope of n-gram in Preferences. n-grams are not counted beyond the set scope.

Main functions

Type of Analysis

You can select Word Count or 2-5 grams.

Min Freq.

You can set a minimum frequency to be listed on the table. You can use stepper to change the number or you can type the number.

If your corpus is large or your search returns too many hits, hiding low frequency clusters might help your analysis, esp. if you export your result. Also when you create n-gram list, setting the minimum at least to 2 is recommended.

Sort

You can sort the word/n-gram list in alphabetical/frequency order. If you calculated statistics, you can sort the list in the order of statistics.

Search

You can search a word/n-gram in the Word/n-gram list. Simply enter a word/n-gram and click Search.

Some additional features

Search in Concord

You can search a selected word/n-gram in Concord. Left click the one you want to search and then right click -> Search in Concord. If you have search results in the Concord table, CasualConc asks you if you want to go ahead or not.

Move table contents to another table

You can move the search result on one table to the other by Menu -> Misc -> Move List → (left to right) or Move List ← (right to left).

Statistics (experimental)

If you have two word lists, you can calculate keyness with Log-likelihood or Chi-square.

Run Word Count with different corpus/database or open a saved word list. Then, go to Menu -> Stats -> Calculate Keyword Stats. Keyness will be displayed with your choice of statistic. Black numbers (positive) mean the words are more frequent in the Word List on the left. Red ones (negative) mean the words are more frequent in the Word List on the right.

Save Result

You can save the search result as CasualConc document (SQLite file) for later use by Menu -> File -> Save Table (left table) or Save Right Table (right table).

Export Result

You can also export the search result as CSV (comma separated values) file, which Excel can open by Menu -> File -> Export Table (left table) or Export Right Table (right table) or clicking Export icon (for exporting left table).

Open Saved Data

You can open a saved CasualConc Word Cluster document by Menu -> File -> Open Saved Data. Saved data will be imported to the left table. If you want to open another file, you need to move the first import to the right table. If you create a CSV file in the same format, you can import it to CasualConc and used for keyness calculation.